just watched 'the box'..movie sucked IMO but whatever. question is though, would you do it? if someone came to your door and said 'push this button and you'll receive $1million, but someone you don't know will die'..would you do it? can't say that i would i'll just make money some other way, not worth someone's life, but that's just me.

Originally Posted By blakdak007:
just watched 'the box'..movie sucked IMO but whatever. question is though, would you do it? if someone came to your door and said 'push this button and you'll receive $1million, but someone you don't know will die'..would you do it? can't say that i would i'll just make money some other way, not worth someone's life, but that's just me.

What do I care I'm rich I hit till the buttons breaks ill buy my way out of any situation

I was also dissapointed when I watched the movie- thought it was about something else.

"One time I was invited to come to a social gathering. I was paid a handsome amount of money, and I brought a shotgun and a bottle of tanqueray and showed those people the best time they've ever seen." KP

"One time I was invited to come to a social gathering. I was paid a handsome amount of money, and I brought a shotgun and a bottle of tanqueray and showed those people the best time they've ever seen." KP

"One time I was invited to come to a social gathering. I was paid a handsome amount of money, and I brought a shotgun and a bottle of tanqueray and showed those people the best time they've ever seen." KP

No. Money is never worth the price of someone's life. Unless it was guaranteed the person dying was a pedophile or something. but you wouldn't have any way of knowing, and I would rather be safe than sorry.

Another way to look at it is:
* The overall median income is $32k/yr.
* The average effective tax rate is roughly 43%.
* The federal budget is about 3.5 trillion dollars.
* There are roughly 310 million people in the US.
* The average person will work for roughly 45-50 years of their life
* The average life expectancy is 78 years

So...
* The average person will make about 1.5 million dollars in their lifetime (in today's dollars)
* The average person will pay $645,000 of that in taxes
* That equates to 20 years of your life, or 25% of your total life expectancy
* The federal budget alone is 9.5 billion (9,500 million) dollars per day
* That equates to 294,573 man-years of life, or 3,776 total lives, every day

So, every minute...
* The federal government alone "kills" 2.6 people and "gets" 6.6 million dollars for doing it.
* That's 2.5 million per "button press."

However, that assumes that everyone that "dies" is "killed" at birth. If you figure that the median age is 36.8 years old (or 41.2 years left to live), then you're actually talking about 1.2 million dollars per "button press." Which is pretty close to the proposed model.

In essence, Washington is pushing the button every 11 seconds.

In the time it took me to write this post, the government killed over 30 Americans.

I would press the button then instantly draw my G19 and put 15 in his chest and one to the computer. I think that would count since I didn’t really know the guy. See, not so bad. Oh, then I would call the LEOs.

"If you're not shooting you should be loading, if you're not loading you should be moving, if you're not moving, someone is gonna cut off your head and put it on a stick...." -Clint Smith, Thunder Ranch

I never saw the movie, but that's a lame adaption of the old psych experiment where college students hit a button that causes increasing pain to someone in another room, they hear screaming etc-of course the person in the other room is faking it.

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Originally Posted By TrojanMan:Another way to look at it is:
* The overall median income is $32k/yr.
* The average effective tax rate is roughly 43%.
* The federal budget is about 3.5 trillion dollars.
* There are roughly 310 million people in the US.
* The average person will work for roughly 45-50 years of their life
* The average life expectancy is 78 years

So...
* The average person will make about 1.5 million dollars in their lifetime (in today's dollars)
* The average person will pay $645,000 of that in taxes
* That equates to 20 years of your life, or 25% of your total life expectancy
* The federal budget alone is 9.5 billion (9,500 million) dollars per day
* That equates to 294,573 man-years of life, or 3,776 total lives, every day

So, every minute...
* The federal government alone "kills" 2.6 people and "gets" 6.6 million dollars for doing it.
* That's 2.5 million per "button press."

However, that assumes that everyone that "dies" is "killed" at birth. If you figure that the median age is 36.8 years old (or 41.2 years left to live), then you're actually talking about 1.2 million dollars per "button press." Which is pretty close to the proposed model.

In essence, Washington is pushing the button every 11 seconds.

In the time it took me to write this post, the government killed over 30 Americans.

"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." ––Mother Theresa

No, really, we don't. I don't make a poor child die, and in fact our country gives a shitload of money to poor countries to try to keep those kids from dying. What's making them die is political instability and/or opression in their country that keeps aid from being distributed to its intended recipients.

The first part of your life, you worry about what people think about you;

The middle part of your life, you don't care what people think about you;

The last part of your life, you realize they weren't even thinking about you at all.

Haven't seen the movie, but read a short story on this premise in jr. high. " Push the button, someone dies, you get rich." Guy whines a lot and pushes the button. Story ends with the man picking up the box, button pusher asks "What will you do with the box now?"

"We'll make someone else the same offer we made you".

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